Trump slams Facebook, Twitter as ‘third arm’ of the Democratic party

President Donald Trump has blasted Facebook and Twitter as the “third arm” of the Democratic party for blocking links to a news story that seeks to sully Joe Biden, his rival for presidential election, based on questionable information and allegations about his son’s business dealings.

Allies of the president, who is trailing the Democrat ahead of close of polling on November 3, have sought to portray the story as potentially the “October Surprise” of the 2020 election, using a term for an unforeseen setback that leaves the targeted candidate with little or no time to recover.

In a report headlined the “Smoking Gun Email”, the New York Post, a conservative-leaning publication owned by Rupert Murdoch, reported on Wednesday that Hunter Biden had sought to set up a meeting in 2015 between his father, then vice president, and an executive of a Ukrainian energy company that he was serving as a board member.